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All my puny sorrows / Miriam Toews.

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ISBN	9780571305285 (paperback)
ISBN	0571305288
Name	Toews, Miriam, 1964- author.
Title	All my puny sorrows / Miriam Toews.
Published	London : Faber and Faber, 2014.
Published	©2014.
Description	321 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary	Yolanda is conflicted. Her sister Elf has battled depression for her whole adult life, and is in a psychiatric ward under permanent observation after attempting suicide - again. Yolanda has always looked up to Elf as her talented and beautiful older sister. She loves her with a fierce passion and wants to believe in the possibility of a future together, one in which Elf gets better. But it's looking unlikely and Yolanda has to decide; if the person you love is tired of living, is it kinder just to let them go? 'All my puny sorrows' (a line from a Coleridge poem) is written out of Miriam Toews' personal experience and is, in some ways, a grown-up version of 'A complicated kindness', the novel that catapulted Toews to her bestselling status in Canada.
Subjects	Depression, Mental -- Fiction
Subjects	Family -- Fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Depression, Mental -- Fiction . Family -- Fiction . Authors: Toews, Miriam, 1964- .